Wall protector



A. G. HALL.

WALL PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9. 1921.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

HHHHHHHMHHH INVENTOR A. 6170 28 By 1' Z ATTORNEYS' To All i'clzoaoz itmag concern:

UNITED s'rArsf ART-Hone, minnorfsranra, WISCONSIN? I wA L'P orEcrroR,

Be-it known that'I, ARTHUR G; HALL, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Sparta, in the county of Monroe and State of \Visconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in WVall Protectors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Myinvention relates to attachments for articles of furniture, and it-consists in the:

combinations, constructions and arrangements herein described and claimed. H

An ob ect of my invention 1S to provide an attachment for a bedstead, orlike article" of furniture, that is adapted to prevent the contact of thebedstead, or like article, with an adjacent walL; A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described that has a bumper or stop member made of a suitable material, such as rubber, and ar.- ranged to contact a wall in advance of an article to which the device is applied, whereby such article is prevented from contacting the wall and injury article thus obviated. v

A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the character'described that can be quickly and easily adjusted to a bedstead or the like without the use of" any tools and without any change in the usual construction of an ordinary bedstead being required.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described that is simple in construction and operation,

thoroughly effective for the purpose in tended, 'and practical commercially,

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following specification, and thenovel features ofltheinvention will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

My invention is illustratedin the accompanying drawings, forming part of-this application, in which t 4 I Figure 1 is a-view showing the use and application of the device, Figure 2 is an enlarged elevation ofxa' portion'ofthe mechanism shown in Fig.- 1,

and". I v V Figure 8- is a section along the line 33 I of Fig; 2. a

Referring now to the drawings, 1- denotes a bedstead that is ordinary in construction and ISPIOVlQlGCl with cylindrical legs or supports 2. The latter maybe tubular or solid' and have a to the wall orito the 1921 serial io, 463,1910;

a cylinder? Attached to certain of thelegs 2, preferably adjacent to the fioor 3, are similar stems 7 Specification ofLetters Patent Patented. Application fii wiaa a see-um other than, that of 4, eacliprovided with'a bumper?) at its outer or free end. Thebumper-o is made of'rubber orany othersuitable material that is' not likely to injure a surface conta'ctedfand has shock absorbing qualities; In the present instance, the bumper 5 is a knob-like member provided with a socket 6inv'vhich is disposed a plug .7 formed with a threaded opening 8 in its end .wall. member 9 has an integralrod-like shank 10 threaded at its end for engagement with the threaded opening )8. In" the present" instance, the clamping member 9 is substantia-lly semi-cylindrical to conform with the contour of the leg 2 although obviously it may be of other conformation. A cooperating clamping member 1-1- is likewise adapted to conform witlrthe curvature ofthe leg 2 L and has an integral extension 12 to one end thereof adapted to enter the adjacent end of the tubularstem land to contact both the shank 10 and the wall of the stem 4; f

The clamping'men bers an 11 are pro, vided'with'cooperating similarlugs or ex;

tensions13-and 14, respectively, throughwhich a bolt 15 is projected to connect the clamping members 9- and 11 and togclamp' tle same :to opposite sides of the leg 2'so" that the stem iwill be held against'movej v ment relative to the leg 2. A ring or ferrule 16 is slipped along the stem at to fit snugly against the clamping members. The plug 7 I is screwed on, thethreaded endofthe rod'lO until the bumper 5 abuts the end of the 'stem 4:. Y r

variouspartso'f the device, the operation described.

the bumper 5 will contact the baseboard 18 the latter'asthe "portion of the wall above the baseboard is relatively" more frangible or likely to be marred. Thestem 4 isof suf ficient length to prevent the contact of any portion of the bedstead with the-wall when A clam-ping 9s I From the foregoing description" of the V thebumper' has :been moved againstthe, lat

ter. Since the bumper is made of a relatively soft material, the Wall is not likely to be injured or marred b'y'the contact of the bumper therewith.

more particularly in the appended claim.

I claim: A device of the character described comprising cooperating clamping members adapted for engagement With a support, one of said clamping members being provided with an extension adapted to be positioned at right angles to the support a tubular stem arranged to encompass the extension and to abut the clampingfmembers at one end, and means engaging with the extension at its free end for supporting a bumper in position to abut theouter end of the tubular stem.

ARTHUR e. HALL. 

